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One of the most banned and challenged book in school districts in the USA
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YF ALEXI
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YF ALEXI
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009. | First paperback edition. | Little, Brown and Co | 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available 8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Central - Teen Fiction has 3 YF ALEXI Glencarlyn - Teen Fiction YF ALEXI Shirlington - Teen Fiction YF ALEXI |
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| OverDrive | Recorded Books, LLC | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences,...
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All of Paulo Coelho's books are banned in Iran
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11 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Central - Adult Fiction
F COELH
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 1998 | HarperPerennial | 174 p. ; 21 cm. cm | English | Available 11 copies, 12 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F COELH |
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CD F COELH
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CD F COELH
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2001] | Unabridged. | Harper Audio/Caedmon | 4 audio discs (270 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Glencarlyn - Adult Audiobooks CD F COELH Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F COELH |
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| 2005 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out 8 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out 4 copies, 14 people are on the wait list. |
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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half
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Cannot be taught in high school literature classes in Israel.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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F RABIN
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F RABIN
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F RABIN
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2017] | Random House | 264 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F RABIN Central - Adult Fiction F RABIN Shirlington - Adult Fiction F RABIN |
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"A controversial, award-winning story about the passionate but untenable affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel's most acclaimed novelists. When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Charismatic and handsome, Hilmi is a talented young artist from Palestine. Liat, an aspiring translation student, plans to return to Israel the following summer....
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Banned in Queensland, Australia. In other parts of Australia, it has to be shrink wrapped and can only be sold to adults.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ELLIS
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [1991] | First edition. | Vintage Books | 399 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F ELLIS |
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American...
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Banned in the United Arab Emirates
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2004] | New edition. | Blackstone Audio | 3 audio discs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Westover - Adult Audiobooks CD F ORWEL |
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has unlimited |
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George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
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Banned in South Korean for all military members and bases
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2008] | Bloomsbury | xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 382.71 CHANG |
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Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
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Entire series banned in Malaysia
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F JAMES
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F JAMES
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F JAMES
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2012 | 1st Vintage Books ed. | Vintage Books | 514 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F JAMES Shirlington - Adult Fiction F JAMES Westover - Adult Fiction F JAMES |
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| [2012] | Unabridged. | Random House, Inc. : | 16 audio discs (19 hr., 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks CD F JAMES |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 30 |
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| [2011] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 716 pages (large print) ; 24. | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type has 2 LT F JAMES |
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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
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Banned for import into Cuba
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Central - Adult Fiction
F CORRE
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F CORRE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CORRE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available 4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F CORRE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F CORRE Shirlington - Adult Fiction F CORRE |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 2
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Atria Books | English | Available Online 2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Central - Adult Large Type has 2
LT F CORRE
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | Thorndike Press | 559 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Large Type has 2 LT F CORRE |
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Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic...
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Formerly banned in Nigeria
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2007. | First Anchor Books edition. | Anchor Books | 543 pages ; 21 cm | English | Checked Out 11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| 2008 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. |
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With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor's beautiful...
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Only Christians are allowed to own the Bible in Libya. Banned in The Maldives and North Korea.
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2007] | Harper Bibles | xix, 1,129, 383 pages : color ; 21 cm | English | Available Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 220.52 NRSV HOLYB |
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Banned in Chile
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14 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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F ALLEN
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F ALLEN
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c1985 | A.A. Knopf | 368 p. ; 24 cm. | English | Available 14 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F ALLEN Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F ALLEN Westover - Adult Fiction F ALLEN |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 2
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Atria Books | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 13 people are on the wait list. |
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A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all.
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Formerly banned in New Zealand
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| ©2016. | First hardcover edition. | Polis Books | 270 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available Westover - Teen Fiction YF DAWE |
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Wanting more than the Maori customs and rituals provide Te Arepa believes his prayers are answered when he is awarded a scholarship to a boarding school across the country.
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In Hong Kong, it must be wrapped and only sold to adults.
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F MURAK
Central - Adult Fiction has 5
F MURAK
Central - Adult New Fiction
F MURAK
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018. | Knopf | 681 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction F MURAK Central - Adult Fiction has 5 F MURAK Central - Adult New Fiction F MURAK |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 4
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online 4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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"In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman...
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Banned in Venice, Italy
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| [1959] | Obolensky | 1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 21 cm | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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Free-form blobs of color form a yellow family and a blue in this picture book. Little Blue and little Yellow play madly together until they hug each other. Then they become green, but later cry themselves apart in a sequence of blue and yellow tears.
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Banned in Argentina
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| 1992 | Distributed by Random House | xxxi, 335 p. ; 22 cm. | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2005 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list. |
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Awe and exhiliration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and...
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Banned in Austria
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943.085 HITLE 1999
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 1999. | Houghton Mifflin | xxi, 694 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 943.085 HITLE 1999 Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 943.085 HITLE 1999 |
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Hitler's famous prison writings of 1923--the bible of national socialism and the blueprint for the Third Reich. Features a new Introduction by John Lukacs, author of "The Hitler of History.
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Banned in Eritrea
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| 2009. | Free Press | 279 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 362.734 POOL |
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Banned in several countries including Kenya, Kuwait, and Liberia
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| 2008. | Random House Trade Paperbacks | 561 pages : portrait ; 21 cm | English | Available Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction F RUSHD |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges...
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Banned in Lebanon
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| 1993. | Simon and Schuster | 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F KENEA Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F KENEA |
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Removed from reading lists at India's Mumbai University.
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 1991. | First U.S. edition. | Knopf | 339 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F MISTR |
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